This is true of the culture of Europeans, as is the perception of civilization. When human ruins are excavated, we must first define a few signs, and if there is one, civilization will appear, and if there is none, it will not. Why? Or with a kind of subconscious that I am stronger than I, I am richer than I, and I have the final say. They divide the countries they come into contact with, which are civilized countries, and they are barbaric countries, which have not changed for thousands of years.

Barbarian nations can be despised, barbarians can be conquered, and even barbarians are not counted, they can be slaughtered, sold, enslaved at will, this is their tradition. In such a cultural consciousness, it is a matter of course that a slave society can only be feudal. Civilization that is different from this tradition is what they see as an alternative, a so-called barbaric state. For example, the big woolly bear in the ice and snow, stained with the tradition of great unification brought by the Mongols, is a monster. No matter how much it looks, it's not a civilized person like them.

How can it be accepted by the people of this era to see the world in this way? At this time in the Song Dynasty, the Han people were once occupied by the northern nomads, and they were once beaten very embarrassed, and even once ruled, but they have always been the richest place in the world, a civilized place. Even if the Khitan and party items that can't be defeated, except for the alternative ones for a while, the upper echelons have taken the initiative to sinicize. The knowledge that Du Zhongxiao learned was that after the Han country was defeated twice, and a large group of countries took turns to trample on it, not only the regime, but also the economy and culture were completely subdued, and he forcibly either threw away his traditions or changed them, and taught them completely with a new look. If you talk to people of this era, of course, you will be treated as a monster.

Looking at Wang Anshi and Han Jiang's somewhat confused eyes, Du Zhongxiao said with a smile: "We readers, of course, have to read history, if we don't read history, we won't know the world." For thousands of years, it is nothing more than three dynasties, the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the Qin and Han dynasties. What's the biggest difference? Why is it so divided? Of course, from the perspective of whether the court is divided into the world. The county system is a great unification, but the officials have feudalism, which is a complete unification. Is there any harm in having feudalism? Both of them, like each other, have been officials for many years, so they naturally know the harm. You have the means, you can control the subordinates, that is your ability, you can't say that there is no harm. Therefore, the core of governance is that everything comes from feudalism. How to break feudalism and stabilize the world. ”

"As I just said, the core lies in two words, a word of power and a word of money. It is easy to say now, and the court has a way. Start an industry and make money from your own industry. Printing money and making money on a rational monetary system. Issuing bonds, making money from the money earned from debts. If you think about it again, there are many more ways to do it, and you don't just need to rely on money and food taxes. Why? For the imperial court, the more expenses relied on taxation, the easier it was to be swayed. For example, the tea method has changed several times in the past few years. Every time there is a change, we must first worry about the merchants who sell tea, they lose their capital, what if no one sells tea in the future? On the contrary, although some officials mentioned the people who started the mountain to grow tea, they would not be considered when the tea law was really changed. Therefore, the more the court does not rely on taxes, the less it is swayed by powerful people when it governs. This is the fundamental, and without this fundamental, many things cannot be done. With this foundation, the imperial court received the world's financial power. With financial power in hand, you can govern as you want. Receiving local money and grain to the three divisions and using taxes to regulate the world's financial resources is only to share the financial power with the world's powerful people, but not to really control the financial power. ”

In my previous life, I often talked about making cakes and sharing cakes, which sounded very reasonable, but in fact, it didn't make sense at all. What cake does the regime share? I have to go in and share a piece of cake to be full, and how much adjustment power can I have? There are many people, whether it is a company, a business, or a school organ, they all know that they run their own canteens, why doesn't the regime know? I have my own canteen, and I don't eat in a piece outside.

"But there must be taxes, and it can't be exempted. Why? This is financial power. Holding the world's financial power, to let the world know, tax is to let them know where the financial power is. Let the people of the world know which ones are taken care of by the imperial court, which ones are suppressed by the imperial court, and which ones are laissez-faire. ”

Han Jiang said: "Isn't this just money?" At the end of the day, money and power are the same thing. ”

Wang Anshi shook his head: "No, this is power, not money." Taxes are the power in the hands of the imperial court to collect the world's money, not necessarily money, but also grain, errand service, relocation to the border, a lot. The Han Dynasty moved to the big households, and after all, it was still the right. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Yes, this is power, and financial power is only part of the money." With financial power, it is not difficult to govern money. In this world, money can't fight for power after all. Therefore, if you don't have power, the rich man will be a rich man after all, and he will not be able to become a powerful person. Are rich people expensive? Of course, they are also nobles. Eat well, drink well, have a car, live in a hospital, and live much better than ordinary people. In the world, all of them are born and raised by their parents, and what their parents have is empty of their own. In other words, who doesn't want to marry a wife and have a descendant? With the inheritance of incense by future generations, they also think that they should have their own children, and of course rich people think that future generations will always be rich. But as long as there is no power to be around, let them go. Future generations will be angry, have nothing to say, and if they don't fight, money can't be exchanged for power, and they will keep their wealth and prosperity if they do evil. Therefore, to break the feudalism, first of all, we must break the power of the people's money, and the local government must not have the time to ask for money from the power people. Once that's done, the rest is fine. ”

"The imperial court governs the locality, there are officials, bureaucrats, officials, and errands. Each has its own responsibilities and is assigned to its own affairs. Appointed by the bureaucracy and the imperial court, during which promotions, appointments, and dismissals can be transferred. Officials and errands are local, officials divide official power, and they are not capable of ordinary people, and it is inevitable that officials will have feudalism. They got to that position on their own, they have their own expertise, and I call them professionals. Errands are errands, and the people who really do things are actually these errands. If officials want to be autocratic and elevate officials, they must be able to control the errand servants. If not, the officials can't fool around. So when the errand, it should be by the place of the turn. It is better not only to run errands and do chores, but to be able to read and write, but also to use errand labor for the general copying of documents and the like. The method of wheel difference is actually to use the messenger. If a ruler wants to use his power for personal gain, he can only harm some people and thus gain his own benefit. If you harm someone, one day the victim will come to take turns to do errands, and it will be difficult to hide his treachery. Therefore, the officials should be hired and recruited, and eat according to their ability, so that the family should be well fed and clothed. Servants cannot be hired, even if the imperial court has loose money and food, and some subsidies can be issued, the principle of rotation must not change. ”

It is often said that bureaucracy is a government person, and they are all officials. As a matter of fact, there are many divisions of labor among the administrative personnel of the regime, and the officials, bureaucrats, officials, and servants are different, and they have their own spheres of power and their own powers. With the increased control of the imperial court, it is not easy to control the bureaucracy, and most of the problems can be solved by appointing rogue officials, each with a term of office, and avoiding the system. If the law is stricter, it will be impossible to talk about many things about abusing power for personal gain. For example, in this era, you must be an official hundreds of miles away from home, you must not have relatives and assets under your rule, you cannot marry wives and concubines under your rule, and so on. That is, officials are required to have no entanglement of interests with the places they govern. As long as there is an entanglement of interests, the opening will be opened, and this opening will become bigger and bigger. A hole with a large needle's eye will come in and fight a big wind.

The feudal power has been greatly restricted by the system of liuguan, the tenure system, and the imperial examination system. Enyin is not feudal, but a reward for officials, and it is not impossible to realize it when the time comes. If the financial power is collected, there will be many ways to do it in the system.

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao said with a smile: "We are officials, and it is easy to think of here, I think it is quite easy." In the final analysis, some of what I just talked about is nothing more than to receive the power of the world into the hands of the imperial court, and also to control the financial power of the world, and the power of officials is great. What happens when you have a lot of power? Of course, is it surveillance? Imperial history is like advice, and the local superintendent, isn't that what they do? But is that enough? ”

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao looked at Wang Anshi and drank a glass of wine. In history, Wang Anshi changed the law, and the Taiwanese officials were occupied by the opposition, and finally he took the power of Taiwanese personnel into the hands of the prime minister. This change was of great significance, and it was the basis for the large number of power ministers in the later Song Dynasty.

Putting the cup down, Du Zhongxiao said: "As I said just now, although Qin II died, and all generations of Qin politics were practiced. Qin politics is top-down, if Taiwan is just like this, isn't it still Qin politics? It's nothing more than that the imperial court didn't have it before, but now it has an iron rod that can be inserted to the end, and it has the ability and means to control the people in the world. In addition to reading history, we scholars also need to read everything. This is another thing, the things in the world are one yin and one yang. The imperial court uses officials to govern the people, and of course, it must also use civil supervisors, and only by being the inside and outside can they be perfect. Mencius said that the people should listen to the people, and the Taiwan should supervise the officials according to the people's will, not just from the top down. I call this the Hundred Refining Guanhua Rou Finger Rou, an iron rod that turns into a ring. ”

"The news of the Taiwan admonition cannot be said in a vacuum, but should really collect the heart from the system and use it as a supervisor. It is more difficult to do this than to be a good official, and only by being a good official can you do this errand well. If one day I can do this if I can do this for Taiwan, I feel that I can be better than in Jingxi Road. ”

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao looked out the window and said, "The autumn wind is up, the weather is cold, and I will lead the troops to the expedition in a few days." I don't know when I will be able to do the same thing as a few years ago. Before the expedition, the two happened to get together and said more, forgive me. We belong to the same year, and we have some experience as officials, so we should share them. Listen to it, listen to it, just take it as a gust of wind if you can't listen to it, don't think I'm wordy. ”